52: Downward National Trends in Mental Health Treatment Offered in Spanish

Dr. George Pro, Ph.D., M.P.H., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the downward trend in the provision of mental health services in Spanish across the US, despite the rapidly increasing Hispanic population.  Dr. Pro is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

• How did you get involved in this research? [01:04]
• What are the demographic challenges and what do we know about services provision in this population? [02:20]
• The level of mental health care service utilization [04:45]
• Why focus on language access? [05:39]
• What did you find? [06:48]
• The National Mental Health Services Survey [08:25]
• National results [10:24]
• The importance of data visualization [12:39]
• Figures and how they convey information [17:02]
• Ohio and North Dakota: rate of change, not overall population [20:07]
• What are the limitations to this approach? [21:43]
• Communicating data to policy makers [23:26]
• What’s next for your research? [24:45]

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